MISSION VIEJO, Calif., Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — 5BARz International Inc. (OTCBB: BARZ) (Boerse-Berlin: O5B), (www.5BARZ.com) (hereafter “5BARz” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that the Company has received issue notification from the United States Patent and Trademark Office that another of the Company’s core or underlying patents has been issued.

The issuance of Patent number 8027636 entitled “Multi Band Wireless Repeater” in addition to the prior issuance of US patent 8005513 entitled “Cell Phone Signal Booster” represents two of the core patents underlying the 5BARz cellular network infrastructure device technology.

Mr. Daniel Bland, the CEO of 5BARz International Inc. states that, “These patent issuances in addition to the Company’s existing patent applications in process and growing technological ‘know how’ represent a very strong intellectual property foundation upon which the Company’s developing line of cellular network infrastructure devices are based. We consider the Company’s focus in building a well developed intellectual property portfolio over its product line to be a critical long term strategy as the significance of this technology and products take hold in the global marketplace.”

About 5BARz International Inc.

5BARz International Inc. holds the exclusive global marketing and distribution rights and holds a 50% ownership interest in the technology underlying the 5BARz™ products. 5BARz™ is a cellular network infrastructure device for use in the small office, home and mobile market places. 5BARz™ incorporates a patented technology to create a highly engineered, single-piece, plug ‘n play device that strengthens weak cellular signals to deliver high quality signals for voice, data and video reception on cell phones and other cellular equipped devices. 5BARz™ represents a key solution for cellular network operators in providing clear, high quality signals for their subscribers with a growing need for high quality connectivity.

5BARz International Inc.’s shares are publicly traded on the OTCBB under the ticker symbol BARZ in the US and on the Berlin Stock Exchange (www.boerse-berlin.com) under symbol “O5B”.

On behalf of the Board of Directors
“Mr. Daniel Bland” CEO & Director
5BARz International Inc.

Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

The information contained in this release consists of forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. These statements may involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in such statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including all business uncertainties relating to product development, marketing, market acceptance, future capital requirements, and competition in general that may cause actual results to be materially different from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. The Company is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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Board of Advisors

Board of Advisors
Finis Conner, for the length of his legendary career has consistently identified and executed winning trends in the lightning fast technology industry. Finnis’ experience in selling, designing and manufacturing hard disk drives played a major role in creating the multi-trillion dollar, global technology market that prior to him was non-existant. Finnis has been the pivotal player in migrating computing from floor towers, desktops, laptop computers and now to your back pocket with smaller an smaller devices, with higher capacity and lower costs. In 1973, Finnis co-founded Shugart Associates, where they produced and sold 8″ floppy and hard (HDD) disc drives. The company was sold to Xerox Corporation in 1977. Not unlike many of the entrepreneurs associated with 5Barz Finnis’ never ending focus on “new market trends” and “consumer needs” have served both us, the consumer and him, the career entrepreneur, very well. In 1979, Finnis correctly recognized the trend to smaller computers and conceived the original 5 1/4″, 5MB Winchester disc drive which led to co-founding Seagate Technology. Many computer manufactures at the time didn’t see the need for that much memory but Conner sought out and later sold Steve Job at Apple Computer, 95% of his first years production. Today, Seagate is the largest drive company in the world with a $12 Billion market capitalization, 50,000 employees and shipping over 50,000,000 drives per quarter. In 1986, Finis saw the eventual migration of computers to even smaller and smaller form factors and developed the 3 1/2″ hard drive. There was little interest at Seagate to develop this small of a drive at the time, so Finnis left Seagate to found Conner Peripherals, which was funded with $35M from Compaq Computer. Hence the 3 ½” Winchester Drive was completed and made available for sale in a rather short period of time Conner Peripherals was an instant success and became the fastest-growing company in U.S. history with Conner leading the growth of the company to $1.4 billion in sales in only its 4th year and $2.7 billion in its 10th year, when he engineered the sale of the company to his former company and then rival, Seagate. Finnis is noted for having nurtured and developed top management teams throughout his entire career in multiple disciplines including, sales, marketing, manufacturing and distribution. Under Conner, both Seagate and Conner Peripherals built World Class ISO 9001 high tech manufacturing facilities around the globe, including, California, Singapore, China, Vietnam, Ireland, Scotland and Italy. Over the course of his career, his companies were responsible for creating in excess of 160,000 high quality, high paying technology jobs. Finnis Conner is a visionary student of market trends, a leader in developing market-dominating companies with unmatched financial performance.

Dave Habiger

Board of Advisors
Dave Habiger began his career as a founder of Providence Productions, a media production company. This quickly led to a passion for computer based tools and technologies that were starting to revolutionize media production in the early 90’s. In 1992 Habiger began working with the founding members of Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC), later playing an important role in the company’s IPO. As President and COO he organized and managed a global software development team, later becoming CEO. Sonic enterprise software and technology helped launch multiple media formats and was awarded an Emmy for its contribution to the television industry. As CEO of Sonic, Habiger leveraged his 15-year partnership with the Hollywood studios to help move the industry from DVD distribution to internet delivery of movies and TV shows, establishing a leadership role as one of the largest global providers of premium movies and TV shows via the Web and consumer electronic devices. Since its IPO, Sonic generated over $1 billion dollars in revenue in the digital media category and was named one of Forbes, Fortune and Businesseeek’s Fastest Growing Companies on multiple occasions, ultimately leading to its sale to Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI). Habiger later made an investment and took over as CEO of NDS, a leading provider of technology solutions for the digital pay-TV industry. With close to 6,000 employees worldwide, NDS provided the software to enable satellite and cable operators to reach their customers. Shortly after NDS registered for an IPO on the NYSE, the company was acquired by Cisco for $5 billion. In 2008, Habiger was chosen as one of Corporate Leader Magazine’s 40 under 40 business leaders and regularly appears as an industry expert on major media outlets including CNBC, CNN, Fox, The Street.Com and Bloomberg TV. Hollywood Reporter chose him as one of 2010’s Digital Power 50 and in 2011 Habiger was chosen as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Mr. Habiger is a director on numerous public and private boards, including the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the National Association of Corporate Directors, the Center for Corporate Innovation and the Advisory Board of the University of Chicago Center for Entrepreneurship. He received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from St. Norbert College and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Orlando Cueter

Vice President, Business Development LATAM
Orlando Cueter joined 5Barz early on as the company was still developing its patented technology. Orlando has focused the majority of his time in Latin America working closely with the carriers in the region and maintaining their increasing interest in the 5Barz Network Extender. Orlando has maintained many of the critical relationships 5Barz needs in Latin America, especially with the major carriers engineering staff, technical leadership and major decision makers. Orlando is an Industrial Engineer and holds a Masters in Economics from Georgetown University. With over twenty years of business experience, Orlando began his career working at the United Nations in Santiago, Chile – Industry Division. Since then, Orlando has been involved in corporate finance for a diverse number of global businesses.

Samartha Raghava Nagabhushanam

CEO, 5BARz India. COO 5BARz Corporation.
Ex-Managing Director, Kyocera Wireless India Pvt. Ltd. Samartha is a Visionary and Entrepreneur closely associated with Global Telecom Industry over the past two decades. He has lead organizations of 1000+ engineers spanning across 5 countries. His current companies: Aseema is focusing on increasing the enterprise productivity through its fleet of mobile applications and back end analytics to increase the CAGR of Enterprises. HuddleNDeal, provides home entertainment and automation solutions for Indian HNI homes. Samartha was Founder Director and Managing Director of Kyocera Wireless India (KWI), Bangalore, established in the year 2003 as a subsidiary and part of Kyocera Group Companies headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. He established KWI as a profit center and lead the growth from zero to 850+ Engineers in six years. He also sold 2.5+ million Kyocera CDMA phones in India between 2004 – 06. A Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics & Communications), from Mysore University, he has done Advanced Management Program from ISB, Hyderabad and Kellogg School of Management, Chicago. He also has Masters in Philosophy and Religion from MKU, Madurai. He is pursuing his PhD in Philosophy from HUA, Orlando.

Mark Geoghegan

Financial Consultant
Mark has operated as a financial professional for 30 years. A former Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse, Mark, through his operating businesses, has developed a career of guiding developing companies from start up stages to thriving enterprises. He was a hands-on manager at an organization that developed 1,100 franchised outlets internationally within a few years, and was a very active part of a turnaround team in a high tech company that now has a market capitalization of $1.6 billion dollars. He has substantial experience in structuring and listing companies on stock exchanges in various venues in the world and substantive post-listing management experience, including quarterly reporting, annual audited financials, annual reports, budgets, ongoing business plan development, investor relations and management of business development initiatives.

Daniel Bland

Founder / CEO
Daniel is a seasoned entrepreneur who has firmly established himself as a ‘hands-on’ developer of premier and unique technologies. Over the last thirty years he has been well ahead of the technology curve by locating state-of-the-art technology, incubating it, developing it, commercializing it and building a world class team around him to make those technology innovations and advances a reality. Through this process Daniel has mastered the small cap market techniques that have allowed him to raise over $100,000,000 for his various ventures in both domestic and international venues. His development and financing activities over the years have allowed him to build a network of like-minded companies and individuals across the globe from Monaco to Moscow, Vancouver to Bangalore. His success in large part is due to his persistence and focus. One project at a time, Daniel fully immerses himself as an entrepreneurial CEO in the startup stage while selecting a management team to take the technology, the product and the company to the next level. All these skill sets and his thirty years of experience is now fully focused on building 5Barz and its leading-edge products in the most vibrant technology sector in modern times – the Wireless Industry.

Dr. Gil Amelio

Chairman of the Board
An iconic technology executive and investor, Dr. Amelio recently stepped down from the AT&T Board of Directors, a career expanding 18 years, to assume a more hands-on role in executing 5BARz’s accelerated growth strategy as Chairman of the Board, effective February 2013. Throughout a career span of over three decades, Dr. Amelio has led various technology companies, including serving as the CEO and Chairman of Apple Computer, the President, CEO and Chairman of National Semiconductor, and the President of Rockwell Communication Systems, a unit of Rockwell International. Under his leadership, these companies underwent successful transformations that resulted in over $9 billion USD increase in investor value. Dr. Amelio launched his career as a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs’ legendary Murray Hill, NJ campus. He received a Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree, and Ph.D. in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Amelio has been awarded 16 patents and a 17th is pending. He is the co-author of three books, two of which were business best sellers. Dr. Amelio has established a well-documented legacy of having identified and implemented key strategically important emerging technologies leading to significant increases in shareholder value at the companies he led. His broad base of experience, influence in the technology sector and insightful guidance to developing technology companies is a significant asset to organizations with which he is or has been associated.